Grammys Taxes and the IRS The Grammys award show is a big production, which GRAMMY.com calls Music’s Biggest Night. Awards are coveted for their status and industry recognition, but they can increase performer earnings too. On the...

Google and the Social CRM BusinessRelax, CRM vendors. Google is not getting into the customer relationship management business (CRM) anytime soon. But they should. Google seems to understand the Social CRM needs of small and medium sized companies...

Giuliani Rancic Receives Inappropriate ReplyGiuliani Rancic hosts the 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The Hunger Games starlet, who is endowed with extreme grace and extraordinary beauty, made a linguistic blunder at the SAG 2014. Giuliani Rancic received a rather inappropriate reply from Jennifer Lawrence regarding the dress she wore to the function.

Jan 20 2014, 8:18am CST

Shoppers fret about authenticity of Target emailsTarget email to customers offering credit help genuine, but scams are out there
NEW YORK (AP) — An email sent to the roughly 70 million Target customers who may have been affected by a pre-Christmas data...

Jan 17 2014, 4:01pm CST

AP Source: NSA phone data control may come to endAP Source: President Barack Obama to call for ending NSA's control of Americans' phone data
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday will call for ending the government's control of phone data...

Worldwide Travel, Write It Up, Write It OffYou have to admit it sounds awfully good. Travel the world, write your experiences, and write off all your expenses on your taxes. Trouble is, someone thought of it before you, and the IRS said no. Not only that, the...

Jan 17 2014, 1:11am CST

Apple agrees to refund $32.5M for kids' purchasesApple to refund $32.5M to parents who say they unwittingly OK'd purchases during kids' games
WASHINGTON (AP) — Plenty of parents have been there — handing over the iPhone or iPad to a child while waiting...

Yahoo CEO lets go top lieutenant in surprise moveYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer parts way with top operations exec just 15 months after hiring
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is cutting loose her top lieutenant in a possible sign that the Internet...

Blackphone Sets Out To Uphold Objectives Of PrivacyAt the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb, 24, a joint venture that appears to be somewhat covert in nature between Silent Circle and Geeksphone, will launch a new ultra secure smartphone that gives the user the...

Net Neutrality Ruling: What Happens Now?Yesterday’s Appeal Court ruling against the FCC's net neutrality rules will probably not mark the end of the internet as we know it.
Following the ruling, internet providers now in theory have the ability to prioritize...

Jan 15 2014, 8:51am CST

New Ways For Turning Data Into Dollars NowBy Scott Cameron, Andrew Pickersgill, Rob Turtle
Big Data is transforming the way companies do business. But many firms are finding that it requires significant investments of time and money before seeing the value. ...

Jan 15 2014, 7:21am CST

Report: NSA maps pathway into computersReport: NSA maps pathway into foreign computers using radio waves and covert chips
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but...

Report: NSA maps pathway into computersReport: NSA maps pathway into foreign computers using radio waves and covert chips
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but...

Jan 14 2014, 10:26pm CST

China video sites confident public will payChina's video industry confident it can beat piracy, persuade public to pay for online content
BEIJING (AP) — When media studies student Liu Zhiqi settles down to watch a movie or TV drama at the home of...

Nokia waves final goodbye to MeeGo and SymbianThe famous Finnish tech. giant Nokia had previously announced that in October, they will be ending all developer support for their flop platform MeeGo and recently, they have announced that they’re saying goodbye to Symbian as well.

Top 10 Most Litigated Tax IssuesWhat happens when a taxpayer disagrees with the Internal Revenue Service? Some people think that the matter ends there: the IRS always wins, right? Not necessarily.
There are a few ways to appeal an action with IRS but...

The Rise Of The Biobot: Mixing Biology And TechnologyIn a recent article posted on the The Guardian website, author and new-age guru Deepak Chopra made an interesting observation.
“A cyborg future is coming. Man’s relationship with machine is merging and machines are an...

5 Fearless Ways To Simplify Your Finances In 2014The first of the year can be overwhelming for many people. Even with the best of intentions, people overspend and are left with credit card bills to pay off. We go into the season confident we can stick to a budget but...